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| two opposed forces coming face to face |
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Big vs small
Rich vs poor
Men vs women
Strong vs weak
Primitive vs industrialized societies
East vs West
Honour vs Dishonour
Insider vs outsider
Intellect vs physical |
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Making an Important Choice
Going on a Journey
Falling from a high position
Making a sacrifice
Striving for success
Accepting Punishment
Being Treated Unfairly |
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Introduction
Complications
Climax
Resolution or Denouncement
Conclusion |
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Exposition
Inciting incident
Rising Action
Climax Falling Action
Resolution
Denouncement |
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Introduction - characters need to learn or grow
Circular path - reflecting cycles of life
Characters learn or grow
Story seems to spiral |
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Central Conflict
Plot
Irony
Setting
Literary Devices
Characters
Purpose |
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Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Satire
Literal Irony
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| Something a story character does not want to happen, ends up happening |
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The reader knows more than the story character(s)
It comes in two parts:
1. the reader has a growing sense of doubt
2. the reader's expectations are filled |
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| An absurd concept/activity used in a story to exemplify something equally absurd in real life. |
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Place
Time
Mental or Cultural Setting
Done to create a mood |
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Symbolism
Allusion
Connotation
Denotation
Allegory
In Media Res
Foreshadowing |
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| Literary Device - Symbolism |
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Something that has more than one meaning
Fresh cigarettes
Car names - Cougar, Jaguar, Land Rover
Cultural Icons - Virgin Mary
Object demanding attention
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| Literary Device - Allusion |
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Some other work of literature the reader may know
Character Daniel chosen - connected to David & Goliath
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| Literary Device - Connotation and Denotation |
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The difference between an exact & an intended meaning
ie: the word GOLD
everyone may agree on the definition (denotation)
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no one agrees on the connotation (use of the word) |
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| Literary Device - Allegory |
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A story that carries a much greater message than its simple contents
The Tortise and the Hare |
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| Literary Device - In Media Res |
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= in the middle of things
The story starts in the middle of things and then is told through a series of flashbacks. |
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| Literary Device - Foreshadowing |
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| The reader can see the story climax or conclusion earlier. This makes the story conclusion acceptable. |
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Flat Characters - they don't change
Round Characters - grow and are changed by events |
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| Archetype/Stock CHARACTERS |
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Hero/Heroine
Villian/Devil
Little Man
The Betrayer
The Temptress
Wise Old Man
Scapegoat
Seperated Lover |
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| Methods of Characterization |
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Exposition - How the narrator views or judges the character
Dialogue - what characters say
Action - what a character does
Description - how a character looks, his her ownings |
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To provide the reader:
- a new insight or revelation
- reinforcement of something already known |
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| Alternate Forms of Critique |
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Feminist
Marist - role of economics in creating society
Freudian - character developed in dreams and fixations
Formalist - story told on a plot diagram
Biographic - parallels between fiction and a lived life
New Historicism - social values in an era
Reader Response - author tries to control the reader's response |
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Brief Introduction
A Clear Claim (the Thesis)
Full Development of the thesis using details and specifics
A Conclusion
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| The place where thought, witing, and action combine |
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Allegory, Alliteration, Apostrophe,
Assonance, Allusion, Aside
Foreshadowing, Hyperbole, Metaphor
Onomatopoeia, Soliloquy, Synecdoche
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A method of representaion or term in which a person, abstract idea or event...
stands for itself and for something else |
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| Drama Term - Alliteration |
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The repetition of an initial sound
K K Katie |
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| direct addressing of a person, object, or and abstract quality as if it were present and listening |
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| An allerative forms in which long vowel sounds are emphasized |
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A reference to a person, event or condition.
i.e Daniel come to judgement. |
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A stage convention where a character speaks words only heard by the audience.
In movies - a voice over |
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| An obvious and deliberate exageration, and extravagant statement. Not to be taken literally. |
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| Drama Term - Onomatopoeia |
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Use of words that suggest by their sound the object being named
i.e. Bang, buzz, clatter murmer, hiss, sizzle |
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use of imitative words for rhetorical effect
i.e. Love like a red, red rose newly sprung in June
Love like the melodie sweetly played in tune
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A character speaks directly to the audience to express their thoughts or emotions
Also now a voice over |
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A kind of metaphor
The crown = the queen and government
The Fleet = a group of sailors
Motor = automobile
Dail Bread = foord and general sustenance |
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Prose = words arranged in the a fiction
Poetry = words more concise and compact |
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| Present the reader with a story |
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Stanzas
Rhythm schemes
Patterns contributing to rhythm and rhyme |
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Sonnet
Ballad
Chaucerian Stanza
Haiku
Heroic Couplet
Limerick
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| Poetry - Types of Stanzas |
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Couplet - a two line stanza = aa, bb
Triplet or Tristich = three line stanza = aba, aaa, or abb
Quatrain = 4 line stanza = abab
Cinquain = no rhyme pattern but abcdc is not unusual
Sestet = 6 line stanza used as last half of a sonnet |
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| a particular meter in a poem |
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Phyrric = soft soft - used in Greek poems
Anapestic = soft soft hard
Iambic = soft hard - to BE or Not to BE
Dactylic = hard soft soft - SHALL we dance
Trochaic = hard soft - ketchup
Spondaic = hard hard - BOOTS BOOTS....
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| Poetry - 3 Rhythm or Meter Types |
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Iambic - soft hard
Trochaic - hard soft
Dactyl - hard soft soft
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Monometer - one measure per line
Dimeter - 2 measures per line
Trimeter - 3 measures per line
Tetrameter - 4 measures per line
Pentameter - 5 measures per line
soft hard/ soft hard/ soft hard = Trimeter |
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| Poetry - Patterns of Rhyme |
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Masculine - 1 syllable = Cat, Rat, Hat
Feminine - 2 syllables = dragon, flagon, wagon
Eye Rhyme - fits the eye, not the ear. hone one
Conceit - words do not rhyme at all
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